Letters to the editor: May 1

How about some help for teachers, too?

I am amazed that public school administrators and school board members continue to increase administrative operating budgets while taking shortcuts to the actual dollars that affect direct student education.

I have yet to see a proposal for more administrative personnel to help overworked classroom teachers to keep up with their job responsibilities. These teachers somehow have to manage their overwhelming daily workload and state mandates by spending more evening, weekend, vacation and summer hours to keep up while maintaining the standards of a highly qualified teacher.

Kudos to today's dedicated teachers who are passionate about their responsibility to their students no matter what the cost.

Pam Jackson

Florence, Ariz.

formerly of Lafayette

Nice work on those geese, you coward

To the idiot who blatantly ran over two geese on Twyckenham Boulevard at 7:10 a.m. April 29, I hope you got to your destination on time. Not! By the time I got turned around, your cowardly self was gone, leaving me to return to move a goose out of the road. Your silver car with its dark tinted windows are forever memorized. If you travel down that road once, you surely will travel it again. I'll be looking for you, and we will have a discussion about the value of life from my view point. I hope we meet.

Jon Terry

West Point

New special education advocacy group starting

Are you a Tippecanoe County parent, guardian or foster parent of a child in need of special education or a 504 plan? Do you find it impossible to find your way through the maze of rules, regulations and school policies? If so, please join us at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Tippecanoe County Public Library, 627 South St., for an introductory meeting for a new advocacy group, Special Education Advocacy Training-Tippecanoe. We are assessing the need for parents and other caregivers to have additional basic and advanced special needs advocacy training. Register by calling me at 765-572-2892 or by email at specialedconsulting@gmail.com.